Example sentences of "were [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 2 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 3 | Makes you remember all men were hunters once and only the fittest of them survived . |
| 4 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 5 | There were voices outside as the train came alive . |
| 6 | There were voices outside and then two heavily-built Algerians came striding in , each wearing an astrakhan hat and a sheepskin car-coat . |
| 7 | There were fans everywhere and people chasing after him in the streets . |
| 8 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 9 | One was always afraid , there were spies everywhere and one could never be sure who were one 's friends . |
| 10 | The they were niggers here when we came here at first . |
| 11 | The they were scabs then and the scabs now , and they 'll always be scabs all their lives now . |
| 12 | Cos these lads now that have gone back , and they were scabs then and they 'll scabs they will be all their lives now . |
| 13 | Indeed , a soft conventionalist would be able to deny that there were gaps even if lawyers disagreed about these abstract conventions , even if many lawyers denied that statutes make law or that precedents exert some influence over later decisions . |
| 14 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 15 | Their heads , none of whom was of high noble birth and some of whom were of relatively humble origins , were officials rather than statesmen . |
| 16 | There were difficulties here and there , but they were easily solved : " The Stone grids in the Garden beneath the windows of the Head Master 's Dwelling House allowing the escape of an Effluvium from the Main Sewer were ordered to be rectified " in June 1862 ; and a year later the Trustees heard from the Headmaster : " that in order to provide for the comfort of the Trustees at their meetings , I am obliged to leave my Study , my only sitting room , without a chair " . |
| 17 | There were variations here and there , considerable variations . |
| 18 | They were colourists then and good fabrics in the fourteenth fifteenth century . |
| 19 | And there were fears too that even if the armchair fans fork out the £250 for a satellite dish they may then have to pay extra to enjoy the privilege of watching the best games live . |
| 20 | There were bodies everywhere and everyone seemed to be screaming and crying . |
| 21 | Both were essayists rather than scholars , belonging to an age before English studies had accumulated its own technical machinery ; so that their freedom to polemicise about past centuries now looks , in retrospect , like a liberty lost . |
| 22 | It was so skilfully effected that Giles and Cavell were metres away before Maria realised what was happening . |
| 23 | This distinctive feature may have been retained to convince a money-conscious Council that they were rebuilds rather than new cars ! |
| 24 | There were leaks everywhere and well-reported battles between the so-called ‘ dries ’ who were the outright supporters of the Government 's economic policies and the ‘ wets ’ who were the sceptics . |
| 25 | A somewhat elderly man , with a solemn way ; but good at his job and pleasant ( in his solemn way ) in manner so that his practice flourished , and there were holidays abroad and private schools for Miss Hazelwood , whom , it was supposed , would also become a doctor . |
| 26 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 27 | But these were mistakes rather than deliberate deceptions . ’ |
| 28 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 29 | He sensed food , but there were Men there and great machines . |
| 30 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |